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a pool or quiet water in a river, where salmon rest during upstream migrations; a salmon pool.
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1845
The Major smiled at the question, and gave me to understand it was a nickname of his own for the first sheet of smooth water--the first salmon-stand in fact below the bridge, where the fish reposed themselves after their fatigue of ascending the numerous scurs and rapids between Jacques Cartier and the St. Lawrence. . . .
1872
The bottom is gravel and sand, so the salmon "stands," vary more or less with the spring freshets, new pools being formed and old ones silted up or changed.